Use Your Brain to Change Your Age: Secrets to Look, Feel, and Think Younger Every Day

The fountain of youth is between your ears, says neuroscientist Daniel Amen, whose research has convinced him that a healthy brain is the key to living longer, looking younger, and dramatically decreasing your risk for dementia. Following more than 70,000 brain scans on patients from 90 different countries, Amen has found that, while our brains typically become less active and more vulnerable to memory problems and depression as we age, his patients have been able to slow or even reverse the aging process in the brain with strategies ranging from mental exercises to improving nutrition. Amen's ten steps for boosting your brain health are intended to help improve your memory, mood, attention, and energy; decrease your risk for Alzheimer disease; reduce the outward signs of aging; and promote the healing of damage due to injury, strokes, substance abuse, and toxic exposure.